Police also said the Northeast Portland restaurant was burglarized before the fire started, and and officers found graffiti that they said could be part of a hate crime.

"Haters never deserve any type of props. So I don't really want to comment on that," said restaurant co-owner James "Mack" McClendon. "You know, it was something disrespectful."

The fire destroyed food, equipment and computer files.

"Mack and I have been doing music together for a long time. There's like nine years of music, videos, pictures of every event we did, baby pictures of my kids," said co-owner William "Dub" Travis, III.